How Tokyo Achieves Affordable Housing Tokyo has succeeded in maintaining an abundance of affordable housing because it has no downtown, many railroads and laws that make it easy to build.
Why Do Cats Hold Such Mythic Power in Japan? A journey through a country where felines are revered, adored and sometimes seen as actual demons.
Japan Has Millions of Empty Houses. Want to Buy One for $25,000? With a shrinking population and more than 10 million abandoned properties, the country is straining to match houses with curious buyers.
Japan Buries Memories of Its Last War and Worries About Another As survivors of the Tokyo firebombing fade away, Japan reassesses its longstanding pacifism.
South Korea Offers a Resolution to Wartime Labor Dispute With Japan Seoul said it would create a fund to compensate Koreans who were forced into labor by Japanese companies during World War II, an issue Tokyo says was settled long ago.